On 6/15/16, Sean Keough <[email protected]> wrote: > A few days ago I opened > up the program, clicked on the file and instead of 15 pages of diary I have > 15 pages of hashtags. > > ############################################################################################## > and so on. > What can I do? How do I recover the doc?
Questions: 1. Do you have a cat? kids? 2. Could it be possible that you left the computer unattended and someone or something could have just pressed keys on the keyboard randomly until selecting all text and erasing it? In short: it's never a good practice to have all your data on a SINGLE document. It's better to have new files saved with every revision. If it's a daily edit, use the "Save As" function regularly to save the file with a new name, e.g. "seans-journal-jun16.odt" and the next day "seans-journal-jun17.odt" and so on. That way in the event you lose one version you don't lose ALL text just the data you added in the last day. This would be a good practice, going forward... I'm sure you will learn this valuable lesson on data redundancy in the case you end up finding all your typed data is indeed lost forever. FC PS: also, regularly making copies of your documents to an external media (flash card) or to the cloud (Google drive, Microsoft's Skydrive (now renamed OneDrive), Dropbox, etc) is a good idea to protect yourself from hard drive / SDD hardware failure. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
